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IFN Researcher
V and MP lift abandoned food tax, accused of bias towards the wealthy
Spain has recently eliminated the food VAT, and Coop’s CEO has also suggested a similar proposal to the Minister of Finance. But Daniel Waldenström, professor at IFN, says to SVT that reducing food V…
Media coverage
Publish date 3/27/2023
Podcast: Maternal Mortality, Race and Income
The maternal mortality rate in the US is three to four times higher than in comparable rich countries. Moreover, it is much higher for African American women than for white women, as well as for low-i…
Media coverage
Publish date 5/1/2023
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IFN Researcher
Conference: Taxes and distribution policy
IFN:s new research program "Taxes and Society" has organized an international conference. Researchers from other Nordic countries and the US attended the conference in Vaxholm with the purpose to pres…
News
Publish date 6/12/2023
Will Joe Biden's proposed taxes on capital make America an outlier?
Research by Daniel Waldenström, IFN, och Spencer Bastani, IFAU and affiliated with IFN, is referred to in The Economist.
Media coverage
Publish date 5/1/2021
The ability gradient in tax responsiveness
Daniel Waldenström, IFN, and Spencer Bastani, IFAU and affiliated to IFN, write a column on the ability gradient in tax responsiveness in Vox EU.
Media coverage
Publish date 6/20/2022
Conference Report
Since 2000, IFN has organized a yearly conference within areas of research in Stockholm. This year, it was organized within the newly started research program “Taxation and society” which is led by Da…
Affiliated Researcher
IFN Researcher
The brave new world of Swedish education
Magnus Henrekson's and Johan Wennström's book Dumbing Down: The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great Shool System – and How to Reverse the Trend, is reviewed in The Critic.
Media coverage
Publish date 4/18/2022
Returning to the Classical View of Knowledge: An Interview with Johan Wennström
Johan Wennström, IFN, is interviewed by The European Conservative on his and co-author Magnus Henrekson's book Dumbing Down.
Media coverage
Publish date 8/6/2022
IFN Researcher
Affiliated Researcher
The launch of IFN's new research program "Taxes and Society"
On 16 February, a kick-off was organized in connection with the launch of IFN's new tax research program "Taxes and Society". The aim was to present the background and design of the new program to spe…
News
Publish date 2/17/2023
Euro discussion returns due to weak Swedish krona
Swedish krona or Euro? Lars Calmfors, researcher at IFN, who investigated whether Sweden should join the single European currency on behalf of the government in the 1990s, in interviewed in Sveriges R…
Media coverage
Publish date 7/3/2023
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Affiliated Researcher
Reassessing the mental health crisis among PhD students
Joacim Tåg, IFN, Matti Keloharju and Samuli Knüpfer, Aalto University School of Business in Finland and affiliated to IFN, writes a column in VoxEU on reassessing the mental health crisis among PhD st…
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Publish date 11/12/2024